Justin Hitchcock's Remarks and Observations

drank said he must die unless a vomit could
ease him but it was too late He died that
night. And appeared to have all his flesh
consumed as much as if he had pined away in
a consumption. However injustifiable it might
be for my Brother to take down that bottle
when none of the family wer present. Yet I think
that thoes who set a bottle of such deadly poison
within the reach of the Children of the family
are more to blame still. He civil law If they were
not exposed to prosecution in the civil law yet
I think they can hardly be freed from guilt in
the present case no such composition ought to
be kept within the reach and power of the young
inexperienced.. 1783 In February this year
definitive treaty of Peace between England and
North America. They at length gave up to us all
we asked. And we were left in almost as critical
a situation as when we began the war We had
a heavy debt to pay. And the trade that now
opened upon us drained off the money the
people had lived so long with but little trade
that they were destitute of money articles of necessary
use. And in debt at the stores and old debts
began to be called for Tho each State had
formed a constitution for themselves. Yet their
was no power in the hands of Congress to raise
money or bind the States. And we had got
possessed of such truly republican sentiments
that evry man thought himself as good as his
neighbour and som better Tho we were freed from
the calamities of war. Yet we were not free from
danger from ourselvs